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Spotify today is officially rolling out its shared playlist feature called Blend to global users, with a few changes. Earlier this summer, Spotify had first launched the new shared playlist experience into beta testing. ...

The bill is nicknamed the "Google power-abuse-prevention law" by some lawmakers in Korea. What you need to know South Korea has passed a new bill to prevent Google and Apple from forcing developers to use their in-house ...

Many measurements are limited by standard quantum limit (SQL). SQL is defined as the measured noise levels set by quantum mechanics. Quantum entanglement can be used to beat SQL and approach an ultimate limit called Heis...

In January, Apple launched its Racial Equity and Justice Initiative in the United States with the goal of "building a more just, more equitable world " and an initial commitment of $100 million. Today, the company is rec...

A combined team of researchers from The Ohio State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a robot arm that moves like an octopus arm without the need for a motor. In their paper published in Pro...

A judge in Ohio has issued an emergency order telling a hospital to treat a coronavirus patient with ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug being promoted widely by right-wing personalities as a covid-19 treatment and prophyl...

When you factor in cars, trucks, planes, trains and shipping, the transportation sector is the largest source of greenhouse gases in the US. If we're going to have any chance of addressing climate change, we'll need to m...

A CERN photographer and videographer writes about his experiences documenting the ongoing upgrade that will turn the Large Hadron Collider into the High-Luminosity LHC. In the beginning, there is mud. And dust. We zip up...

The first batch of stories collected by the #AppleToo movement has been published by the internal Apple organization, giving a glimpse at the company's internal work environment. Credit: AppleInsider #AppleToo organizer ...

Sandia National Laboratories researchers combined large sets of real-world solar data and advanced machine learning to study the impacts of severe weather on U.S. solar farms, and sort out what factors affect energy gene...

A new study may answer why it is so difficult for us to learn a second language as we enter adulthood.

Deep learning is solving biology's deepest secrets at breathtaking speed. Just a month ago, DeepMind cracked a 50-year-old grand challenge: protein folding. A week later, they produced a totally transformative database o...

Microsoft offered a broad "Holiday 2021" release date when it announced Windows 11, back in June. Of course, it didn't specify precisely which holiday. Perhaps the company was aiming for World Teachers' Day, a belated Su...

Windows 11 will begin rolling out this fall -- but it won't have every new feature promised just yet.

The tech giant said it'll offer a preview test version of the delayed technology in the "coming months."

As the broader crypto world enjoys a late summer surge in enthusiasm, more and more blockchain developers who have taken the plunge are bumping into the blaring scaling issues faced by decentralized apps on the Ethereum ...

The social news reading app is offering people more control over what news shows up in their feeds, a distinct shift from Facebook.

Equip your child with a powerful laptop for the new school year by taking advantage of this $250 discount for the Dell XPS 13, which lowers its price to $1,150.

Hum Capital CEO Blair Silverberg thinks that the future of fundraising requires a return to old school Wall Street – sans the fraud. Back in the day, he explained, people would go to Wall Street and request funding for...

The sheer size of Hurricane Ida when it made landfall on Sunday was clearly visible from a NOAA satellite 1 million miles away.

Polaroid's newest instant camera, the Now Plus, has just been unveiled and it brings a new world of control and customisation to the table compared to

These planets are mostly made of gas, but a spaceship would have a rough time trying to get through a giant planet like Jupiter or Saturn.